It's your choice not to fly but don't drag us along who like flying itself just because you don't like it.

This really. This is what I always say. I honestly find it a bit selfish that you would have something removed because you lack the self-control to explore something by foot due to the fact that there is convenience. I actually find it a bit appalling.

i enjoy flying around and seeing the sights, i don't just fly above the tree tops, i like to fly low enough to see things but not to where everything's attacking me. i don't want to have to fight a bunch of mobs just to see things. the simple thing is the people that don't like flying don't fly. use your ground mounts all the time. don't try to ruin flying for those who like it just because you can't get yourself to stop using them.

This indeed. It would invalidate most of what good things Cataclysm did bring.

I have to say, flying through the new world in cata was one of the most enjoyable experiences I ever had in WoW. It was even worth not competing for a realm first (not that I had much of a chance of getting that anyways).

Thought: So a lot of people prefer playing in a spreadsheet, as opposed to an online world, then?

Above statement is a bit cheeky, but you catch my drift. The most frequent complaint I see on these forums is that flying ruined everything. Of course everything is more convenient when you can fly everywhere, but everything is also more convenient if Blizzard were to hand out a billion gold to every player. It would, however, ruin the game - much like flying did to some extent.

While removing flying would be the best thing for the game overall, I recognise that there's almost no way to remove them without damaging the game and community. The convenience is too great, and the emotional attachment too high at this point.

The truth is that flying mounts are a parasite on the game, burrowed too deep to simply be removed without killing the host. So Blizzard do what they can to contain it: they remove flying mounts from us for as long as they are able. With every new expansion we lose the ability to fly for as long as possible, and even in the single expansion which did have flying for the levelling content, we still lost them in the two areas Blizzard expected us to spend the majority of our level capped time in (Tol Barad and the Molten Front).

Flying mounts are terrible. Awful. One of the worst design decisions Blizzard could ever have made. And yet, they cannot be removed. A real shame, because we are missing out on so much due to their existence. So sorry, this petition won't work, nor would I want it to. If this petition somehow forced Blizzard to remove flying mounts, then they'd do it before they were ready to make the change. It would severely harm the game.

Maybe Blizzard have a solution waiting in the wings. I hope that maybe one day we can lose our flying mounts entirely. The game can only be improved if it happened in the right way.

I choose no. Because i see more of the world with a flying mount anyway. I only see this as an attempt to make word pvp better, which i could give two craps about, unless it's in a home city. lol

You could have a petition for something useful. Like casters at halfhill that sit there and constantly try and kill people then run off into their phased farm. avoiding any attempts at self defense from

It's your choice not to fly but don't drag us along who like flying itself just because you don't like it.

Exactly this.
Whiners have already succeeded by making blizzard forbid flying in Pandaria until 90. And frankly I've seen reviews of MoP which scolded the game for that.
To answer OP: yes, I recall, I remember etc. And I hated that.
Flying mounts are the best feature ever introduced in WoW.

Thought: So a lot of people prefer playing in a spreadsheet, as opposed to an online world, then?

Above statement is a bit cheeky, but you catch my drift. The most frequent complaint I see on these forums is that flying ruined everything. Of course everything is more convenient when you can fly everywhere, but everything is also more convenient if Blizzard were to hand out a billion gold to every player. It would, however, ruin the game - much like flying did to some extent.

Wrong. I didn't notice that WoW was ruined. All I noticed was all the auctions in the AH and the people around me on flying mounts and normal mounts, or roleplayers passing by.

How long has WoW been ruined by the way? I must've been continuing, not noticing due to being blissfully ignorant. How have I not noticed that WoW was ruined all this time!